2. Primary Support Prāṇāyāma Breathing Techniques

Viloma Ujjāyī
– Pūraka Alternate Nostrils (Starting with Left)
– Recaka  both Nostrils with Ujjāyī

Links to Related Resources & Longer Articles:

• Prāṇāyāma & Bandha Practice Techniques Glossary
  – Grouped into Primary, Secondary & Ancillary Techniques
• 108 Prāṇāyāma Practice Pointers
• 20 Minute Prāṇāyāma Practice focused on Pūraka without Kumbhaka
• Āsana & Mudrā Practice Techniques Glossary
  – Grouped into Standing, Kneeling, Lying,
  Inverted, Backbend, Seated & Sitting
• cYs Practitioner Training Programme Retreat Extract 1 – Self Planning & Self Practice
• Exploring Prāṇāyāma within Cikitsā, Rakṣaṇa and Śikṣaṇa Krama…
• Viniyoga Vignette 1 – Antar and Bāhya Kumbhaka in Āsana
• Viniyoga Vignette 2 – Combining techniques in Prāṇāyāma
• Viniyoga Vignette 2 Commentary on – Combining techniques in Prāṇāyāma
• Viniyoga Vignette 3 – Śītalī and Anuloma Ujjāyī Prāṇāyāma within Āsana
• Viniyoga Vignette 4 – Combining Prāṇāyāma within Āsana
• Viniyoga Vignette 5 – Introducing Uḍḍīyana Bandha within an Āsana practice

Collated Related Short Posts & Quotes:

“Exploring Prāṇāyāma as Prāṇāyāma within
Śikṣaṇa Krama requires a mastery of the inhale.
For that using Viloma Ujjāyī is recommended.
It is a short-term technique taught specifically
to develop and refine the inhale as a preparation
for working with long-term bi-channel techniques
such as with Nāḍī Śodhana and Sūrya Bhedana.”
– 108 Prāṇāyāma Practice Pointers

“Viloma Ujjāyī can be seen in todays Yoga environment
more as a stimulating or as a Bṛṃhaṇa Kriyā technique.
Here the use of a single channel, only on the inhale, has
a potential to sharpen the individual practitioners focus.
Though for some, the casual application of this unique
sharpening process, as if a general use Prāṇāyāma, can
express itself accumulatively, as if an over-stimulation.”
– 108 Prāṇāyāma Practice Pointers

– Prāṇāyāma only Planning Questions
“Design a Prāṇāyāma practice to
increase the length and stamina of
– the inhalation within Viloma Ujjāyī.”
To Download or View this Question as a PDF Study Sheet
– Yoga Practice Planning and Theory Questions – Collected & Collated